Microsoft SharePoint Server is a versatile productivity booster,
but managing and keeping SharePoint available and finely tuned can
be challenging and time-consuming. Regardless of the size of your
company, or you're focusing on physical or virtual implementation,
the following three tips and tricks can help you deploy and manage
your SharePoint system. #1: Don't Stumble Into the 'Wrong'
Configuration Far too many companies initially implement a
SharePoint configuration that is not adapted to their specific
business needs. Here’s a quick tip on... Read More →

Given my role as an account executive at IncWorx, I interface with
many customers that are looking at deploying a new SharePoint farm
or migrating to a newer version. One of the big things that
sets IncWorx apart is our approach when it comes to these types of
engagements. It's important to properly plan in the beginning
to ensure that your business realizes the full benefits of
SharePoint and it doesn't become an unused platform that your IT
staff is burdoned with supporting. The approach below
outlines the steps we generally follow in one... Read More →

If you have been following our blog or have seen any other posts,
you're probably very familiar with our new UI/UX package called
BrandIt. If you haven't been, BrandIt is an easy-to-deploy
UI/UX package that includes a custom master page as well as Web
Parts that were designed to help improve the user experience and
bolster user adoption. With BrandIt having been in production
state since the end of March, our next phase is to roll out new web
parts to continue to increase the usability of SharePoint.
Our most recent web part/functionality... Read More →

IncWorx Consulting is thrilled to announce that they have recently
added another remarkable product to their arsenal. This one is a
rules-based document routing tool for SharePoint 2010, and is
appropriately called RouteIt. This helpful package actually
trumps the very basic Content Organizer feature within the
SharePoint design for a variety of reasons. This blog will help you
understand the differences between the two so you can see how
RouteIt will dramatically increase user acceptance within your
organization. RouteIt is similar to Content... Read More →

IncWorx Consulting is very excited about a brand new product they
just rolled out called BrandIt. This is a comprehensive branding
package for SharePoint 2010 and a great way to customize SharePoint
to give your organization's intranet a better look and feel. One of
three web parts contained in this package is an interactive tabbed
banner. This is advantageous because it is list-driven and supports
full HTML. This was also built using jQuery, which allows content
to be automatically populated from multiple lists and list views if
the user... Read More →

Calendar overlays are one of the great SharePoint 2010
benefits, but if not setup correctly during the
SharePoint implementation it can be a nuisance. I want to
share with everyone this fix to the error "Could not establish
trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority"
when adding an Exchange overlay. Problem - Error message:
Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure
channel with authority After adding an Exchange overlay SharePoint
2010 displays this error. Cause - This error is caused
by a trust... Read More →

IncWorx Consulting has taken leaps and bounds in the mobile arena
to integrate mobile devices to SharePoint Server 2010. Recently
mobile devices have become more powerful and easy to use. Laptops,
netbooks, tablet PCs, and mobile phones are relied upon to provide
workers access to the information and applications that they must
have to do their jobs. Additionally, developing applications for
mobile devices is now easier than ever. As a result, more and more
often business scenarios demand integrating client applications
together with business... Read More →

In talking with several clients, I've found that one of the more
confusing aspects of SharePoint (both 2007 and 2010) is web
application zones. There are a few reasons for this confusion, but
I think one of the biggest is that the SharePoint Administrative UI
usually only tells half of the story. To get the whole picture, you
also need to look at how IIS, DNS and sometimes your firewall are
configured.In simplest terms, a web application in SharePoint is an
associate of one or more content databases to one or more IIS web
sites. Each IIS web... Read More →

SharePoint 2010 as a web delivery platformI happened to find this
article on cmswire.com that was talking about where SharePoint 2010
is at its best as a web delivery platform. I think the
author, William Saville makes some good points in the article, and
I would like to breifly touch on some of these
points.SharePoint 2010 as a facing application deliery platformSite
visitors want a website that is interactive and provides some
service that will deepen the users experience. SharePoint has
many features that prove to do just this. It has the... Read More →

Many SharePoint admins know that Search is the 800 pound gorilla in
your SharePoint farm. There are several schools of thinking when it
comes to making your farm run better when using enterprise search.
At SharePoint Conference 2011 there was a nice lecture done on the
subject of performance tuning in SharePoint 2010. The lecture
was done by presenter Eric Shupps a SharePoint Server MVP. Eric
strongly suggested that you setup your search databases the
SQL server's fastest disk. Another important tip is to isolate
the crawl and temp databases. ... Read More →

AvePoint released the DocAve 6 public beta that simplifies
deployment, monitoring, and enforcement of Microsoft SharePoint
2010 governance policies. It manages development and
lets you test production farms with ease. It
also features a redesigned, ribbon based interface to simplify
and automate SharePoint governance and management. Key
benefits of DocAve 6 include Increase Business Productivity,
Reduce Total Cost of Ownership, Provides IT Assurance and Enable
Security & Compliance for Business Content. These
benefits help deliver... Read More →

With more and more people using Android Phones and Tablets, it has
come to my attention that the Android Phone’s and Tablets
default browsers block the SharePoint 2010 credentials popup
window. This makes it difficult to login and edit your site on the
go. If you have a SharePoint site, and plugin your URL into the
Android browser you might get a 401 Unauthorized error.
Unfortunately, the default browser blocks the login prompt popup
which could prevent anyone on one of these devices from
logging into their SharePoint site. I recently spent a... Read More →

IncWorx Consulting, a Managed Gold PartnerProblem:For decades,
financial reports and data gathering were very time-consuming
practices, especially when earnings were expected to be delivered
to the SEC in such short time frames. Even more pressure was added
considering what happened in 2008. Analysts would spend an
exorbitant amount of time gathering quantitative data, checking and
rechecking numbers, tracking down support documentation and getting
sign-offs from Executive Management. This in turn, added costly
mistakes when an analyst reported... Read More →

What are the new features offered by Service Pack 1 for SharePoint
2010?Support for SQL Server 2011SharePoint's ability to
integrate with SQL Server has greatly enhanced the product.
With new features emerging in the "Denali" version of
SQL Server, implementing SharePoint 2010 will become even more
powerful.Shallow CopyWith this new feature, you are now able to
move site collections to new content databases without moving
Remote Blob storage content. This way, you don't have to copy the
unstructured data in the file store because only the... Read More →

SharePoint Saturday Standout: Ruven Gotz I attended SharePoint
Saturday this weekend 6.11.11 and was blown away by Ruven Gotz's
presentation on Effective Requirements Gathering Workshop - How to
organize and Run Them. He highlighted ways to help organizations
have a successful SharePoint implementation by gathering the right
information from the start. Ruven suggested to have a group
from three to eight people to gather information about documents,
meta data, site structure, wire-framing & business process
workflows. He introduced tools like... Read More →

In a world that is increasingly mobile, there is an increased need
for enterprise systems that easily translate to a mobile
platform. One of the major SharePoint 2010 benefits is the
out of the box functionality that allows users to view a condensed
version of SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 will automatically
determine if a user is using a mobile browser and, if so, redirect
accordingly. This featuer is customizable using the
"compat.browser" file within your virtual directories.
It is customizable at the site collection level.The default... Read More →

Most people who have Microsoft enterprise agreements have software
assurance benefits, and with these benefits are SDPS
Vouchers. SharePoint Deployment and Planning Services is what
the acronym stands for. The program was designed (by IncWorx
and Microsoft) to help customers not only take advantage of
their Enterprise Agreements, but also to point them into the
direction of SharePoint firms who have a proven track record with
the platform. In order for a SharePoint firm to become a
SDPS certified partner, they must pass a number of tests,... Read More →

In the financial service industry numerous papers and important
information are processed hourly. From prospectuses to
important client information, organizations are striving to find a
platform to store emails, faxes and compliance documents that are
vital to day to day operations. Unexpected overhead is incurred
when this process is manual, this in turn adds to the spike in
operational costs including employee time to manage paper documents
and opportunity cost lost in preforming these tasks opposed to
other more meaningful tasks. Financial... Read More →

Team Foundation Server (TFS) is the first full feature software
development life cycle product that Microsoft introduced. It offers
source control, data collection, reporting, and project tracking
and is mostly utilized for software development projects where
collaboration is key to the completion of the project. TFS can be
used by itself or in collaboration with Visual Studio Team System,
serving as the back end platform. If you use it
while implementing SharePoint 2010 as well, TFS can
be a life saver.Think of TFS as a wheel. Source control... Read More →

A very interesting and relatively new feature of
SharePoint implementation is the My Site functionality. My Site is
very similar to Facebook regarding the personalized look
and feel of your profile. My Site provides a way to save and share
your work, find and connect to other employees in order for them to
view your work, and even customize who views it or how they view
it. In the private view, you will see information of interest to
you based on your membership in a particular audience. For example,
a new employee might see links to training... Read More →